Union City woman arrested on Florida warrant after questioned in robbery of elderly Hoboken couple: police

Google MapsA Union City woman being questioned about an earlier robbery of a Hoboken elderly couple was arrested after police found she was a fugitive from Florida, according to police.

A Union City woman being questioned about an earlier robbery of an elderly Hoboken couple was arrested after police found she was a fugitive from Florida, police said.

Cathy Evans, 55, of Union City, was arrested for being a fugitive from justice in connection with a home invasion and robbery in Miami-Dade County, Florida after police discovered a warrant out for her arrest during questioning, according to reports.

Police say that at 5:40 p.m. yesterday an 88-year-old Hoboken man and his 84-year-old wife were walking home from a physical therapy appointment when they were approached by a woman on 14th Street who pretended to know them.

The woman asked the couple "How are you?" and "I haven't seen you in so long," to which the couple told the woman they did not recognize her, reports said.

The woman then told the couple she used to work at a nearby bank, hugged them, and told the 88-year-old man how much weight he lost, police said.

After asking the 84-year-old wife for her phone to put her number in, which she denied, the woman then asked the man for money.

The man did not have a wallet on him, but was carrying between $1,500 and $2,000 in cash. When he took the money out of his pocket, the woman grabbed the cash, ran across the street, and got into a white four-door Nissan Versa driven by a man and fled the scene, according to police.

A witness in the area heard the couple yelling "Stop, thief!" and saw the woman get into the vehicle. He took down the license plate number and informed police. The vehicle was registered to a car rental company in Morristown, police said.

Police contacted the man who rented the car, who gave police Evans location and she was brought in for questioning.

The couple could not identify Evans as the woman involved, but a police database search on Evans revealed a warrant out of her arrest in connection with a robbery and home invasion in Florida, according to police.